It refers to the smartphones, which were sold in Australia, India, China, U.S., New Zealand and Japan.
Apple Corporation found the defect in the small part of manufactured smartphones iPhone 8 and is ready to eliminate them free-of-charge, according to the statement, published on the company’s website, correspondent.net reports.
According to the document, it refers to the smartphones of this model, which were sold from September 2017 to March 2018, in Australia, India, China, U.S., New Zealand and Japan.
According to Apple, the “small percent” of motherboards of these devices may be defective. Because of that, the smartphones my randomly restart, shut down and do not respond to touching screen and attempts to switch them on.
Apple representatives offer smartphone owners to enter the serial number of devices on the website, in order to check whether they fit this program. Apple states that the service campaign, which will continue during three years from the first iPhone 8 sales, does not touch other smartphone models, including iPhone 8 Plus. The company does not intend to eliminate other possible defects of the devices, which do not regard to the specified defect.
It should be noted that on September 12, the traditional autumn Apple presentation will be held.
